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News that Congressman Mike Quigley supports allowing more O'Hare runway changes that will boost the number of planes flying over our Northside homes ( News , Sept. 6) would have gone over better if it included a property tax discount for those of us suffering under the westbound flight paths between Montrose Avenue and Devon Avenue. At a minimum we deserve airline ticket discounts for having to listen to loud, low-altitude flyovers every two minutes starting after 5 a.m. and sometimes going past midnight.

A potentially interesting offer from Orbitz just landed in my e-mail: Book round-trip airfare by Dec. 28 (for travel by Jan. 31, 2011) and you'll get a $200 credit on a future trip. But there is plenty of fine print, including the rub that you must use the credit toward a "qualifying" airline ticket and at least six consecutive nights in a hotel also booked through Orbitz. Still, it's $200. Details here .

By Christopher Elliott, TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES. Christopher Elliott is the ombudsman for National Geographic Traveler magazine | October 26, 2008

When he cancels his trip to Istanbul, Kevin O'Connell tries to get a refund for the taxes and fees on his flight. Q. I'm trying to get a partial refund for my airline ticket and am getting nowhere. Maybe you can help me. I recently booked a non-refundable ticket on Lufthansa from San Francisco to Istanbul through Priceline.com. I had to call off my travel plans because of an illness, so I decided to recoup my rather sizable surcharges and fees, which amounted to about $350.

By Written by Teresa Wiltz; edited by Marcia Borucki; designed by Julie Frady | November 8, 1996

So the kiddies are on your last nerve. What to do? Feed them to the alligators? Naaaah. Too messy. Plus you'd have to pop for an airline ticket to the South. Or you could do the bonding thing and spend the night cozying up to some ever-so-friendly beluga whales. Sound appealing? Head on down to the Shedd Aquarium, 1200 S. Lake Shore Drive, for its family pajama party, dubbed, appropriately enough, "Sleep With the Fishes." Things start cooking at 7 p.m. Friday and conclude at 8:30 a.m. Saturday.

Four days after abandoning efforts to impose a $20 round-trip across-the-board increase in the cost of an airline ticket, the nation's major airlines appear to have settled on a new increase--one limited to markets also served by a discount carrier. The carriers are raising fees by $20 on leisure and business-class fares that had been priced to match heavily discounted offers by airlines such as AirTran, American Trans Air, Southwest or JetBlue. The major airlines said that even with the new increase they will continue to be competitive on some tickets.

Some air travelers are getting a rude surprise when they arrive at the airport: With tighter security, you no longer can use an airline ticket issued in someone else's name. Airlines this month began requiring passengers to show a photo identification. If that ID does not match the name on the airline ticket, passengers are turned away. If they must fly, they have to buy new tickets. "We didn't use to watch this as closely, so we would only catch people occasionally," said Northwest Airlines spokesman Jim Faulkner.

A new on-line airline ticket service backed by six major carriers intends to sell cheap seats that otherwise might have been left empty. Beginning this fall, Hotwire.com will try to put more passengers on underbooked flights by offering deep discounts on tickets unlikely to sell at regular prices. Hotwire's entrance into the crowded $300 billion travel industry stands out because the company's investors include a roster of airline heavyweights: Elk Grove Township-based United, American, Northwest, Continental, USAir and America West all have stakes in the new service.

Despite charges that airline deregulation isn't working and that some major airlines are unfairly cutting prices, a new study released on the eve of hearings by the antitrust subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee shows there is more competition today than at any other time. And the study downplays the significance in the marketplace of the anti-competitive practice called predatory pricing designed to push start-up carriers out of the skies. "Clearly there are some people who pay more for an airline ticket than they did 20 years ago, but most people pay much less," said Scott Gibson, a research fellow with the Economic Strategy Institute, a Washington-based, business-funded think tank, and author of the study.

At a short protest Thursday at Midway Airport, the Service Employees International Union demanded a raise for security checkers, the people who scan luggage contents for bombs and weapons. The union estimated that raising salaries from slightly more than minimum wage to $7 an hour would only add a dime to every airline ticket. The airlines contract with security companies, and those companies have said the airlines would hire a cheaper company if they tried to pass the cost of a raise onto them.

The former chief of the Illinois Central Management Services police has been indicted on official misconduct and forgery charges for allegedly producing a false identification card, authorities said Friday. Dorothy Campbell, 57, who resigned from her post in September as an investigation against her progressed, pleaded not guilty to the charges last week, a spokesman for the Cook County state's attorney's office said. Campbell had been head of the department since 2000. She is accused of producing the fake ID card for another person charged in the case, Victor Robinson, 54, so he could use the airline ticket of a third person, officials said.